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President-elect Joe Biden Appoints Mass General’s Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, as New CDC Director

By Gloria Rosado | Awards & Honors, COVID-19, Infectious Disease, Medicine, MGH Research Scholars | 0 comment | 10 December, 2020 | 0

President-elect Joe Biden held a press conference to announce a team of health experts, including Dr. Rochelle Walensky, who was appointed to be the new Director for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

Colleagues Across the Nation Show Their Support for Dr. Rochelle Walensky

By Gloria Rosado | Awards & Honors, COVID-19, Infectious Disease, Medicine, MGH Research Scholars | 0 comment | 10 December, 2020 | 0

After news broke that Mass General’s Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, was tapped for CDC director, friends and colleagues voiced their support on Twitter.

What Do We Know About SARS-CoV-2 Reinfection So Far?

By Brian Burns | COVID-19, Infectious Disease | 0 comment | 7 December, 2020 | 0

Based on what scientists have learned from other coronaviruses such as the common cold, reports of reinfection of SARS-CoV-2 are not surprising.

Mass General researchers collecting blood samples

How Scientists at Mass General and the Broad Institute Launched a Study in Days to Probe COVID-19’s Unpredictability

By Brian Burns | COVID-19, Infectious Disease, Medicine | 0 comment | 29 October, 2020 | 0

During the spring COVID-19 surge, a remarkable team research effort took place to quickly learn more about the disease.

Electron microscope image of the SARS-CoV-2 virus

Seven Key Questions to Ask if a SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine is Approved

By Brian Burns | COVID-19, Infectious Disease, Medicine | 0 comment | 27 October, 2020 | 0

While a vaccine will represent a significant turning point in the fight against COVID-19, there will still be a long way to go.

Biopreservation Could Revolutionize the Future of Medicine—How Mass General Researchers are Helping Us Get There

By Brian Burns | Medicine, Surgery | 0 comment | 22 October, 2020 | 0

Mass General is part of a multicenter research effort to overcome key challenges in the long term preservation and reuse of organs, cells, tissues and more.

Building an Effective Dual CAR T Cell Therapy to Target HIV

By Gloria Rosado | HIV & AIDS, Infectious Disease, MGH Research Scholars | 0 comment | 7 October, 2020 | 0

CAR T cell therapy is a promising form of treatment for cancer, and now Ragon Institute investigator Todd Allen, PhD, recently published findings suggesting dual CAR T cell therapy could be an option for HIV.

Budding HIV virions

Stranded in the Desert: Distinct Viral Reservoirs in Elite Controllers of HIV

By Gloria Rosado | HIV & AIDS, Infectious Disease | 0 comment | 23 September, 2020 | 0

Recent research from Ragon Institute researcher Xu Yu, MD, finds that HIV elite controllers can prevent the virus from replicating by sequestering the viral genome in gene deserts.

COVID-19 Could Be Causing Immune System Amnesia

By Gloria Rosado | COVID-19, Infectious Disease | 0 comment | 16 September, 2020 | 0

In a guest blog post, Mass General and Ragon Institute researcher Shiv Pillai, MD, PhD, explains his research examining why COVID-19 immunity may be challenging: The virus could be causing immune system amnesia.

Ten Myths You May Have Heard About Wearing Masks

By Gloria Rosado | Communicating Science, COVID-19, Infectious Disease | 0 comment | 14 September, 2020 | 0

Certain questions and theories about face mask safety and efficacy continue to circulate, which can make it hard to tell the difference between fact and fiction. To set the record straight, we spoke with George Alba, MD, a researcher and pulmonary and critical care specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital.

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